LAN network in the apartment 12 devices - what router, switch?

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Hi, after changing the flat, I finally have a well-made LAN network and order with cables. I have a CAT 6 UTP cable connected to all sockets. All cables converge to the 10 rack. I have a patchpanel installed there. UPC is the internet provider. Now is the time to replace your worn-out and...

xury · Answer

Question on what bands do you have wifi devices? What is the internet speed from the provider?

nelik1987 · Answer

laptops have AC wifi cards, desktops have 1Gbit LAN cards, and 100Mbit printers etc. I currently have 30 Mbit from the provider but I plan to change it to 100Mbit

xury · Answer

I think the Archer 1200 should be good for you. As for the switch, I do not know.

KOCUREK1970 · Answer

@ nelik1987 I will ask you to scan InSSIDerem v2 / Home of your apartment and put the result here.

Anonymous · Answer

Hello. I shyly propose this: or MIKROTIK RB962UIGS AC 2GHz 5GHz SFP 4197 Oopsss (now I read - as usual) The author of the question initially wrote about the price in the area of PLN 200-300. So I warn you, I propose a very good solution, but not cheap: / The price may be prohibitive, however, this is the best solution for a home with 12 hosts or a small business in my opinion. It has detachable antennas and you can insert any SIM card from the mobile Internet or 3G / 4G modem as the second network provider, which gives us the fact that if the UPS provider collapses due to some failure, the second provider, the LTE network, will provide the Internet. I based on similar routers many solutions that I used to network and it works well and fast to this day. Generally very efficient equipment, but ... you have to pay a lot for it. I also do not know if in this budget you will buy something that will satisfy you when transferring large files and with the functions that I am writing about, and every (in my opinion) decent router should have them. In the worst case, you can always look for an old Linksys WRT54GL, ask someone to upload the Tomato software or not and it will also work because what I knew can be done even with 50 hosts. One of my colleagues proposes TP-Link Archer here - perhaps it is a good option considering the parameters, but I have never worked on this equipment - I will not say anything. Unfortunately, the price is not the only selection criterion, there is a bandwidth in which we want to broadcast the 2.4 GHz or 5GHz WiFi signal, if there are to be so many hosts, a content filter would also be useful, blocking P2P traffic, i.e. all torrents, if you do not want it, Most modern high-end routers also have a USB connector to which you can attach a medium such as a USB flash drive or HDD and use it as a personal FTP data cloud. In addition, creating subnets, port forwarding - useful for the server if there is one in the network. There are still some of these options, but these are the basics for such a router to support so many hosts. Best regards.

nelik1987 · Answer

my network as you can see is nelik_wifi Everyone in the neighborhood is in N or AC, but me and some single neighbors stay in G.

KOCUREK1970 · Answer

Where is the rest of the network shown in the measurement? There are 30 networks - and there are only channels in 2.4 GHz 13? - there is nothing to share anymore. 2.4 GHz ether collapsed to the point of absurdity.

nelik1987 · Answer

Okay, should I walk around my neighbors and ask them to turn off WiFi? Rather, a solution must be found. What about the 5 GHz network there is much less

KOCUREK1970 · Answer

You are right, but in the housing even worse than 2.4 GHz - the range efficiency is much lower than in the 2.4 GHz band. No one will tell you how bad it will be - buy a router and you have to check it yourself (of course, network cards in 5 GHz equipment must also be).

speedy9 · Answer

On the G standard, which you are currently using, the real maximum with a light ether congestion is around 15Mb / s, so you have, say, half the maximum. It should work at 5GHz, but that depends on the size and layout of the apartment. In case of problems, you can think about putting a bridge (a second router in bridge mode), which will provide better signal coverage. I have a flat ~ 72m2 and a TP-LINK Archer C20i router. Despite the good range in the most distant room (through 3 walls in total) there are unpleasant jams when using the Internet on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz. At 5 it is subjectively worse despite the cleaner ether, but he mentioned it @ KOCUREK1970

Vytautas_YT · Answer

Option with neighbors rather poor. As for finding a solution to the problem, if someone did it, he would probably be hailed as WiFi Guru. Because of course the problem in this case is noisy Aether and I don't know any way to denoise it. Well, unless to live in the can. 2.4GHz will work, buddy, but you have to be aware that with such a litany of networks in close proximity, you will not avoid problems with wireless network instability. It is best to connect the cable and use WiFi on devices that must be connected to WiFi.

nelik1987 · Answer

This is exactly what I have done, I even connected the plotter to LAN instead of WiFi. WiFi is only used by laptops that do not have a physical RJ45 socket, as well as phones and tablets. Okay, I'm going to buy a router first and then think about the switch. In total, I have one switch, 100Mb / s, but for printers or plotters it does not matter much because they have 100Mb / s network cards. Later I will think about a 1000Mb / s switch I will review the offer of TP-Link routers once again Added after 34 [minutes]: I almost decided on the Archer C1200, but ... I read that it has UNWINNING ANTENNAS, which for me is a very big difficulty, because the router will be closed in a 10-inch RACK cabinet and I planned to take the antennas to the cabinet wall so that there would be no problem with the range. Mocel C7 has 6 antennas, 3 external 5GHz and 3 internal 2.4GHz, which is also a problem because you cannot take out internal antennas.

KOCUREK1970 · Answer

And have you thought about the ventilation of this cabinet? Buy something from Asus with detachable external antennas.

Rafq25 · Answer

What is Switacha? Everyone can do it, whatever you buy. But the 12 ports are unusual and terribly expensive. Either you buy 16 ports or 8 + 4 from the router.
16 D-Link Easy Desktop Switch Switch ports
unfortunately, different ones are out of the budget.

ogogog · Answer

I do not know if it is still valid but since the topic is not closed ...

I would buy Mikrotik, for example, CRS109-8G-1S-2HnD-IN has 8 gigabit ports, WiFi in the N standard, you can connect a spare GSM link on USB or / and a USB disk as a network etc. Since you have a 100Mbit switch, it would not be necessary to buy a switch - put on it devices that do not have or do not require a gigabit link (you save and can add to the router).
I will not cut anything and I do not know how big the apartment is, but before I try to pull out the antennas, I would check if the cabinet has an impact on the range / quality of the connection (antennas are integrated in the given router model).

I appreciate Mikrotika for its reliability and safety (including patching security holes) - as is the control panel, I suggest to configure it on a separate vlan.

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